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From: Mike Hardy <mhardy@h3c.com>
To: berk walker <berk@panix.com>
Cc: Frank Wittig <fw@weisshuhn.de>,
	John Poirier <john.poirier@case.edu>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md Grow for Raid 5
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:20:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <422E3352.20002@h3c.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <422E31F3.3070104@panix.com>


berk walker wrote:
> Have you guys seen/tried mdadm 1.90?  I am delightfully experiencing the 

I believe the mdadm based grow does not work for raid5, but only for 
raid0 or raid1. raidreconf is actually capable of adding disks to raid5 
and re-laying out the stripes / moving parity blocks, etc

You're very correct about needing to grow the FS after growing the 
device though. Most FS's have tools for that, or there's LVM...

-Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-08 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-08 18:23 md Grow for Raid 5 John Poirier
2005-03-08 19:34 ` Frank Wittig
2005-03-08 21:43   ` Mike Hardy
2005-03-08 23:14     ` berk walker
2005-03-08 23:20       ` Mike Hardy [this message]
2005-03-08 23:55         ` Neil Brown
2005-03-10 12:10           ` David Greaves
2005-03-09  9:31         ` Frank Wittig
2005-03-08 22:57 ` berk walker
2005-03-08 23:15   ` Mike Tran
2005-03-08 23:35     ` berk walker

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